Web Services Glossary

Under Construction page - A single,
non-editable web
page which displays the domain
name used to reach it. NameSecure's Under Construction page is available
to all NameSecure customers. The Under Construction page is not
editable.

URL (Universal Resource
Locator) - The addressing standard used for documents and media on the Internet.
The term "http://www.mycompany.com/info/file.html" is a URL. It
specifies the document type (HTTP), the
computer where the document can be found (www.mycompany.com), where on
the computer the document is located (/info), and the document's name
(file.html).

Upload - To transmit
information to another computer over a network. The opposite of download.

UNIX - An interactive
time-sharing operating system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson.
Co-authored by Dennis Ritchie (the inventor of C, another programming
language).

Usenet - A world-wide
distributed interactive system consisting of "newsgroups" with names
which are classified hierarchically by subject. "Articles" or "messages"
are "posted" to these newsgroups by and read by people on computers with
the appropriate software. Some usenet groups are "moderated", meaning
that the posts are sent through a moderator for approval before they are
displayed.

Virtual Host - A computer which can be forced
to respond to multiple IP addresses and provide various services
(typically different Web services) on each. Each of these IP addresess
(which usually each have their own hostname)
operate as if they were separate hosts on separate machines, although
they are really all the same host. Therefore, they are called
"virtual" hosts. An example of virtual hosting is when an
Internet Service Provider "hosts" World-Wide Web and other services for
several customers on the same computer but gives the appearence that
each of these services use separate servers.

Web-Based E-mail
- A service that allows users to send and receive e-mail (and
usually to store e-mail and manage accounts) via a Web interface.
Popular Web-based e-mail
services include HotMail and Yahoo! Mail.

Web Forwarding -
A service that points a domain
name to an existing Web site address. Web forwarding lets you register a
domain
name (such as "mycompany.com") and attach it to an existing Web site
(such as "http://www.aol.com/members/mycompany9876").

Web Hosting - A
service that allows you to upload and
store a site's HTML
documents and related files on a Web
server. This makes the files available on the World
Wide Web for viewing by the public. Also called site hosting.

Web Page - A document
written in HTML
that can be accessed on the Internet.
Every Web page has a unique address called a URL. Web pages
can contain text, graphics, and hyperlinks
to other web pages and files.

Web Server - A
computer that stores Web documents and makes them available to the rest
of the world. A server
may be dedicated, meaning its sole purpose is to be a Web server, or
non-dedicated, meaning it can be used for basic computing in addition to
acting as a server.

WHOIS database -
A public database mandated by ICANN - the
regulating agency over the domain registration industry. This database
was intended to help people contact domain registrants for valid reasons
(ex. Legal reasons).

WHOIS
NamePrivacy Service - A domain name registration add-on service offered
by NameSecure that masks the publicly available data published to the WHOIS
database to reduce spam, and sidetrack scammers and other nefarious
sorts who would misuse that data for their own personal gain.

WHOIS Lookup - A
search of a root
server to determine if a domain
name has been registered and, if it has, who the owner is.

World Wide Web - A
vast collection of files, including text, graphics, and other data
linked through the Internet.

Zone - A section of the
total domain name space that is represented by the data stored on a
particular name
server. The name
server has authority over that particular zone - or the particular
section of the domain name space - described by that data.